For years, healthcare organizations have pursued IT cost optimization through familiar tactics: renegotiating contracts, extending hardware refresh cycles, consolidating vendors, and managing cloud spending. Those efforts can produce incremental savings, yet many organizations find themselves
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Global AI care partner platform Heidi (formerly Heidi Health) announced the commercial launch of Heidi II, evolving its platform from passive ambient clinical documentation
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Social networking platform Grindr Inc. announced an agreement to acquire PurposeMed Inc., the parent company of virtual HIV-prevention platform Freddie, for an upfront base
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Microbiome intelligence and precision diagnostics platform Tiny Health announced the completion of an oversubscribed $33 million Series B financing round led by B Capital,
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Healthcare conversational and agentic access platform Parakeet Health announced an oversubscribed $10M Series A financing round led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from
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Medical visualization company Avatar Medical announced that its flagship software, Avatar Medical Vision, can now be launched natively from within Epic’s EHR.The integration
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In the AI era, "garbage in, garbage out" is no longer a technical warning. It is a business reality.
AI can optimize campaigns, identify audiences and recommend where to invest the next marketing
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Concierge immediate and urgent care network Sollis Health published a comprehensive decade-long trend study, The Real Cost of Healthcare for Americans, that synthesizes
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Integrated virtual care, navigation, and advocacy leader Included Health announced the official commercial launch of Included Health Plans, scheduled for a January 1, 2028 plan
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Indoor IoT and healthcare ambient intelligence provider Kontakt.io released an enterprise strategy whitepaper titled The Ultimate Guide to Implementing AI in Healthcare
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Medical societies hold one of the most valuable and underappreciated assets in healthcare today: specialty clinical data.
Through years of quality reporting, education, and clinical collaboration,
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Ortet, a frontier artificial intelligence laboratory focused on healthcare, officially launched, backed by a landmark $500M investment commitment from Thoreau, the technology
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to MODI, a prescription software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) application developed by DreaMed Diabetes
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For years, autism therapy has forced healthcare purchasers into a false choice: expand access or control costs.
But as diagnoses in the U.S. have climbed to one in every 31 children, demand for
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Workflow automation company EliseAI announced that it has raised $350M in new financing at a $4B valuation to deepen its operational automation platform across the housing and
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Middle-market investment banking firm Capstone Partners (a subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated) released its September 2026 Healthcare Information Technology (IT)
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Advanced wound care solutions enterprise Venture Medical, LLC announced the acquisition of Medipyxis, Inc., developer of a purpose-built electronic medical record (EMR) and
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The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released its 2026 State of Digital Health Purchasing survey report surveying 321 digital health purchasing decision-makers
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Weight Watchers announced a strategic enterprise collaboration with Google Health Enterprise, integrating wearable biometric tracking and AI-driven insights directly into
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Basalt Health, an AI-driven platform automating patient transitions and admissions into post-acute care facilities, raises $20M Series A financing round, bringing its
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Precision oncology and cancer risk intelligence platform CancerIQ announced a major architectural upgrade to its Epic Systems integrations, introducing a redesigned patient
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Diagnostics and virtual care platform Everlywell announced the strategic expansion of its enterprise executive leadership team, appointing Charles Cuzzell as Chief Commercial
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Oracle Health and digital identity network ID.me announced a strategic enterprise partnership at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Florida, natively
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Digital health and direct-to-consumer healthcare leader Hims & Hers Health, Inc. announced the rollout of its AI-native care platform to Hims weight loss members, expanding
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Healthcare market intelligence and analytics firm Trilliant Health announced the commercial launch of the premium version of Oria, an enterprise AI Strategist engineered to
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End-to-end revenue cycle management leader Ensemble Health Partners announced at its Healthcare Leadership Exchange, a strategic enterprise partnership with Penelope Health
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For years, America has talked about the aging population as a problem we will need to solve somewhere down the road. That framing is outdated. The crisis is already here.
The population of older
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UltraSight™, a pioneer in AI-guided cardiac ultrasound workflows, announced it raised $24M in Series B2 financing.Alive HealthTech Growth Fund led the funding round, with
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Cloud communications provider Vonage, a subsidiary of Ericsson, announced the deployment of its Branded Calling technology natively within Epic Systems’ Hello World
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Neuromodulation digital therapeutics pioneer Theranica announced the publication of a landmark, peer-reviewed clinical validation study in Neurology® Open Access evaluating
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Provider data infrastructure company CertifyOS launches its National Shared Credentialing Program, establishing a unified, multi-payer verification network designed to
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At the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Oracle Health announced a major portfolio-wide expansion of embedded artificial intelligence capabilities across its Revenue
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Ashok Benial is right. His argument in these pages last week — that most hospitals are buying AI faster than they can govern it, that "the tools go live while the guardrails are still on a slide deck"
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Global clinical AI platform Heidi raises $340M in total new capital, comprising a $100M Series C equity round at a $900M valuation and a $240M growth investment from General
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The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released its comprehensive report, the 2026 State Healthcare Policy Review: Tracking Private Equity Oversight and Reform,
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The forward deployed engineer model, embraced across enterprise technology, is built on a seductive assumption: that the gap between a technology's potential and its adoption is primarily a technical
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Abridge, the AI-native clinician intelligence platform deployed across more than 300 U.S. health systems, announced it was selected through a distribution partner to provide
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Healthcare access infrastructure leader Zocdoc launches an enterprise platform expansion that syndicates provider availability beyond its native marketplace (Zocdoc.com and
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Patient access and navigation leader DexCare, Inc. announced the acquisition of Mila Health, an AI-driven care coordination company whose conversational agents autonomously
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Healthcare and education technology provider Ascend Learning announced the acquisition of M7 Health, an AI-powered clinical scheduling and workforce management platform
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A commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting in August 2026 revealed that Experian Health’s Patient Access Curator™ protected $50.4M in
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Global strategic advisory firm PwC published a market analysis titled “Unlocking the Women’s Health Opportunity: A New Era in Fertility and Reproductive Health,” projecting the
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Healthcare executives are being asked to approve AI investments through dashboards that emphasize activity: messages drafted, calls summarized, records reviewed and minutes saved. Those numbers show
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Angle Health, an AI-native healthcare benefits platform designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), announced a $600M equity financing transaction at a $2.7 billion
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Healthcare AI has reached an inflection point. AI is rapidly moving from isolated demonstrations to production systems embedded in clinical, operational, and research workflows. A new generation of AI
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The 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer, conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Strategic Education, Inc. and its subsidiary Workforce Edge, surveyed 1,514 full-time
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Arizona-based nonprofit health system HonorHealth (operating nine acute-care hospitals, an extensive medical group, and outpatient networks across Greater Phoenix) has expanded
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For years, healthcare leaders have asked if artificial intelligence can predict what will happen next, such as who might be readmitted, which patients could get worse, where resources are needed, and
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced that its Identity Proofing for MyChart solution is now officially available within the Epic Toolbox Program under the Identity Verification
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Ferry Health emerged from stealth, securing $9M in seed funding to deploy an autonomous, agentic AI personal assistant that handles complex healthcare logistics for
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Healthcare data collaboration platform Datavant announced that investment funds managed by Neuberger Capital Solutions, Neuberger Private Markets, and KKR have agreed to
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Kairon Health, the AI-native execution layer for value-based care (VBC) that it has raised $5M in venture funding to automate day-to-day operations for risk-bearing provider
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ATA Action—the advocacy arm of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA)—launched the Cross-State Care Coalition, uniting health systems, digital health platforms, and
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Smart ring and wearable health technology company Ultrahuman announced the rollout of the HealthEx PowerPlug, integrating personal electronic medical records with continuous
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Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center (SMRMC) in McComb, Mississippi—the flagship hub of Southwest Health—announced on September 17, 2026, that it has completed the
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Most teams building AI systems treat confidence as a solved problem. The model produces a probability, the interface displays it, and the reliability requirement gets checked off. Within weeks, the
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Sword, the $4B AI health company, signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital mental health and mindfulness leader Headspace in an all-cash transaction valued at up to
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Ask most people to describe a biohacker, and you'll likely hear about a man in his thirties with a cold plunge, a spreadsheet, and a strong opinion about seed oils. Ask a fifty-year-old woman whether
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Healthcare revenue cycle management leader R1 announced the launch of Phare Utilization Management (Phare UM), an AI-enabled solution moving hospital utilization management
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Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in cybersecurity over the past decade. Yet many of the assumptions those programs were built upon—how quickly threats emerge, where risks originate, and
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Healthcare clinical data management leader MRO announced it acquired Vyne Medical, a specialist in healthcare data intake and intelligent document processing (IDP) serving more
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